The CRTC’s Big Black Marker
The CRTC published the transcripts of their license renewal hearings on their website recently. Don’t get too excited. There’s not much to read in there, almost every page is blacked out.
The hearings were held in camera to grant license renewals to Canada’s private broadcasters. Blogger Jim Henshaw dug through the 251-page document and found this little nugget of irony from Commisioner Poirier:
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It’s not ironic – not even Alanis-level ironic. “In camera” is Latin for “in private”.
[...] blog, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has taken out their big black marker and begun heavily redacting their transcripts of supposedly public hearings related to the fate [...]
The blackout text must be related to how the private broadcasters take care of the CRTC board members.
[...] of Information request I didn’t file, I’ve received some of the blacked-out pages (see original story) from the recent CRTC hearings, in which both CTV and Global testified, seeking more [...]
Actually Kev since you’re being picky “in camera” is latin for in a room and can be more closely translated by the euphemism “behind closed doors.”